Poem: Love In Silence

[shiori_makiba]

Poem: Love In Silence

by shiori_makiba

Words: 395 in 46 lines

Part of the 'Ohana Series.

Sometimes love can be expressed without words.

Inspired by a prompt from dialecticdreamer for the February 2016 Thank Muse Its' Friday session.

“Love in Silence”

When people talk about love,

they talk about talking almost

as much as they do about sex.

Nat Cho acknowledged that communication

in a relationship was important.

Very important.

A lot of relationship problems could be prevented

if the involved parties just talked to each other honestly.

With all this talk about talk,

sometimes people forget that love can be expressed in other ways.

That it can be expressed in silence as well as in speech.

There is love in the silence of secrets.

To be taken into someone else's confidence.

To hear that which they reveal only to a select few and

know that they trust you to keep that knowledge hidden.

Television and movies always make out someone else's secrets to be

something horrible like deliberately causing harm or the death of another.

If the secret isn't horrible,

they portray the secret as trivial or

that the person is silly for wanting to keep such as a thing secret.

Seeming to forget that it is not trivial or silly to them.

And it wouldn't be trivial or silly if it was your secret

being bandied about.

It was a silence that could be difficult to keep.

One had to balance things like

the secret-holder's right to privacy

and the safety of them and others.

Breaking your silence in that case might save lives

but it will cost you.

You will have rightly lost that person's trust

and may never get it back.

Ultimately only the secret-keeper can decide

which cost they were willing to pay.

Another loving silence was simply being there.

Being the listening ear when the other person needs to rant.

The sympathetic shoulder when the world hurts and they need to cry.

Making sure basic necessities were taken care of

so even when things were crazy,

everyone had something to eat and clean clothes.

It was amazing how much better

even the messiest situation could feel

with a full belly and fresh clothes.

Nat wasn't good with words.

But she was good at silence.

Thankfully she had found

people who loved her for that.

Comments

[thnidu]

I want more about Nat.

• they talk about talking almost
as much as they did about sex.
-> as much as they do about sex

Thanks for Feedback

[shiori_makiba]

>>I want more about Nat.>>

Have made a note to see what other stories she is willing to tell. Chances are very good, most of the 'Ohana family have been pretty cooperative in that regard.

Fixed the mistake.